The Changing Landscape of Medical Education

A recent article in The Washington Post asks whether or not medical school should be shortened to three years, and highlights medical programs across the country that are “fast tracking” its students as a way to get...

National Center Launches New Collection of Measurement Instruments for IPE

Dr. Barbara Brandt from the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education shares how the Center is serving as a resource about what’s happening now—on the ground, in the field—in interprofessional...

Macy Faculty Scholar Sandrijn van Schaik on Improving Communication Between Health Professionals

Sandrijn M. van Schaik, MD, PhD, of the University of California San Francisco discusses her research as a Macy Faculty Scholar to examine communication between health care professionals.

Providing Collaborative Care and Education: A Conversation with Wesley Health Center

With support from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, Arizona State University and the University of Arizona at Phoenix are implementing a graduate-level primary care curriculum. The Wesley Health Center is one of the...

Redesigning the Health Care Workforce: VIDEO Presentation

Last week in Washington, D.C., Dr. George Thibault, president of the Macy Foundation, joined Health Affairs and Academic Medicine for a health policy briefing to discuss how to create the optimal health care workforce...

New Articles on Education and the Health Care Workforce

With an increased awareness among policy makers, providers, and educators that the size, composition, geographic distribution, and skill mix of the workforce is of great importance, the need for health professions...

Macy’s Meikle Chair: A Conversation with Dr. Alan Mark Weinstein

Alan Mark Weinstein, MD, is the Thomas H. Meikle, Jr. Professor of Medical Education & Professor of Physiology, Biophysics and Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. Dr. Weinstein was appointed to...